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01Paying to reach curious readers in 2026: ChatGPT ads, feed ads, paid newsletter recommendations, and the labelling rulesChatGPT now sells self-serve ads, but they cost about 3–8× more per impression than feed ads and are hard to measure, so the cheapest curious readers are still on Meta and Reddit. An ad can be the whole useful answer and still carry its label: the rules draw the line at fake people and hidden sponsors, not at ads that are worth reading.ArticleAttention & feeds66 quotes · 1 source · 11 min11 Oct
02How YouTube, Instagram and TikTok rank video in 2026: satisfaction signals, AI content understanding, and penalties for repostingRecommendation feeds have stopped scoring behaviour alone. A language model now watches the content and judges it — better than the crowd-sourced raters it replaced — while reposting is penalised in the ranking itself. Much of what creators are taught describes the system of a decade ago.ArticleAttention & feeds43 quotes · 1 source · 8 min10 Oct
03Why people keep scrolling: habit, infinite feeds, and the evidence against the dopamine explanationThe best evidence says people keep scrolling because of habit and a feed that never ends — not because of a dopamine jackpot. And engagement-ranked feeds keep showing people what they say they do not want.ArticleAttention & feeds38 quotes · 1 source · 8 min9 Oct